Mastering GitLab 12

Starting the container with configuration settings as input

You can start the GitLab container and let it configure itself at startup by adding the GITLAB_OMNIBUS_CONFIG environment variable to the docker run command.

Put any settings from gitlab.rb in it that you'd like and they will be loaded in the container start procedure before the internal gitlab.rb file. Some examples from the omnibus-gitlab template are as follows and you can add it as argument to docker:

--env GITLAB_OMNIBUS_CONFIG="external_url 'external_url 'GENERATED_EXTERNAL_URL' \gitlab_rails['smtp_enable'] = true \gitlab_rails['smtp_address'] = "smtp.server" \gitlab_rails['smtp_port'] = 465"gitlab_rails['gitlab_shell_ssh_port'] = 2222

Here's an example that sets the external ...